권지예의 「뱀장어 스튜」 서사구조 연구

Abstract

A good novel is arranged and combined with factors in accordance with the principle of mutual compatibility(Causality, Economical property, Inevitability). It will get aesthetic effects the characteristics of parts bring inherent power out in the chapters and conflicts and develop into an external form. This manuscript has a research purposes to consider the process of signifying(a creation technique) on complex devices with a novella “Eel Stew” written by Ji-Ye Gwon and invokes psychology and psychoanalysis theory in accordance with the analysis of formalism·structuralism and desire·impulse. “Eel Stew” is a story about a woman who hopes to escape from her cracked life with her husband repeatedly comes back from a situation staying with a man and describes internal conflict she cannot settle on both her husband and the man. The author reveals the precarious relationship and deficiency with her husband and the amplification of desire with tension through the flow of a series of illogical consciousness and does mosaic the protagonist's internal aspect. The superficial structure is a complex composition changing randomly time and space with free association, internal dialogue, the interchange and superposition between memory and retrospect. The structure suggests the deteriorated situation as a different recognition and has the episode of symbol and metaphor, developing a series of anecdote and illustration loop and a foreshadowing form of illustration. In-depth meaning structure can explain the sense of anxiety, the desire of escape and hedonic desire involving pain and develop a passion for love and a will for existence through the ambivalent mentality of life and death instincts inflaming tensions. Even though her anxiety from failure of love and a sense of guilt leads to despair, deprivation and a suicide attempt remaining trauma and showing destruction and aggression, life instinct hidden behind it recreates a craving for survival and propagation being projected on lefthand suicide, baby bugs' vitality, heartbreaking struggle. It shows the world of unconsciousness where death and life instincts confront fiercely each other such as a huge iceberg existing underneath consciousness. Eventually, her repetitive life resisting routine with returning from her leaving is both a trapped world symbolizing death and a strong will for existence. The protagonist's complicated and subtle mindset itself is a important material in “Eel Stew”, the past seemed irregular is composed by demonstrating the technical competence showing her inner aspect and spirit, conflict and desire and so on in three dimensions up to invisible point such as a Cubist Picasso's painting and has an insight into her life living without overcoming behavior problems, causes and a sense of anxiety living as if floating around.